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Saturday, 9 May 2026
13 facts about tears
13 facts about tears
Multipurpose liquid
Associated with emotions, tears are a product of lacrimal glands, found in the eyes of most terrestrial vertebrates. Although their primary function i ...

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Mushrooms
Fungi (Fungi) form next to animals (Animalia) and plants (Plantae) a distinct, great realm of eukaryotic living organisms.
They are found in all climatic zones, mainly on land, but also in waters, both salty and fresh. The ...
Fungi
A mushroom called Hydnellum peckii growing in North America, Europe and Asia, secretes a red, bloody substance on a white cap.
It is a very rare mushroom, fully protected in Poland, it is placed on the Red List of Large-bearing Mushrooms with status E, i.e. "extinct".The mushroom is inedible but extremely decorative.
Tears
The human eye produces up to about 115 liters of tears annually.
Ganymede
The surface of Ganymede is geologically very diverse.
On its surface, there are both geologically young areas and much older, darker, and covered with many craters.
Milky Way
The center of our galaxy can be found in the constellation Sagittarius.
Unfortunately, it cannot be observed directly in the visible spectrum because it is obscured by clou ...
Brain
The smallest brain mammal is the Etruscan shrew. The biggest one - the sperm whale.
The Etruscan shrew is also the smallest of the currently known mammals.
lava
Lava is molten or partially molten rock (magma) that has risen to the surface as a result of an eruption.
The hot, molten mass of silicates and aluminosilicates, mixed with oxides and sulfides, with large amounts of water and gases, formed lava as it rose to the surface.
Mushrooms
Mycelium may become visible to the naked eye, for example, on various surfaces and substrates such as damp walls or spoiled food.
Myceliums grown on solid substrates are referred to as colonies. Some individual colonies can reach ...
Graphene
Polish science contributed to the discovery and revolutionization of graphene production methods.
The key date is 2011 when the Institute of Electronic Materials Technology together with the Faculty ...
Cosmos
The Sun has a diameter of 1.392.684 kilometers.
It is about 109 times larger than the Earth and its mass is approximately 333.000 Earth masses. The Sun accounts for about 99.86 percent of the mass of the solar system.